If you don’t need an extralarge screen and a lot of extra bells and whistles, the Toshiba SD-P71S is a solid portable DVD player.

Standalone player sales not benefiting from HD DVD’s exit from the market.

A team of engineers at the University of California at Berkeley has developed a technique for transmitting medical images via cellphones. This potentially could bring medical imaging to the ‘three-quarters of the world’s population which has no access to ultrasounds, X-rays, magnetic resonance images, and other medical imaging technology.’ The lead researcher said that this new system would make imaging technology inexpensive and accessible in non-industrialized countries. As medical images are usually pretty large, I was a little bit skeptical when I first read the UC Berkeley news release. But as the researchers have found a way to reduce these images to a mere kilobytes, it can actually be feasible. But read more about this brilliant idea… You can see…

The Sony NV-U83T is a seemingly attractive in-car GPS with a large display and useful navigation features, but it shows its ugly side with poor directions and subpar performance.

The Sony NV-U83T is a seemingly attractive in-car GPS with a large display and useful navigation features, but it shows its ugly side with poor directions and subpar performance.

The big takeaway from the product fiesta that is Interop Las Vegas 2008 is that 10 GB Ethernet has finally arrived. Sister site TechRepublic has multiple folks on the scene at Mandalay Bay, here’s a look at some of the key items (roundup): Implement 10 GB Ethernet over copper with planning Takeaway: “Using copper cabling for 10 GB Ethernet will be a tempting topic to the network administrator. Expanding the copper infrastructure that may be in place to include 10 GB Ethernet performance is attractive from many perspectives. This includes cable management, patch panels, termination tools, cost, and ease of installation — all making 10 GB Ethernet an attractive migration.” Splunk seeks to revolutionize IT change management using its IT…

Panasonic’s TH-42PX80U 42-inch plasma sets the picture quality-to-value standard for entry-level flat-panel HDTVs.

Panasonic’s TH-42PX80U 42-inch plasma sets the picture quality-to-value standard for entry-level flat-panel HDTVs.

Open source CRM star SugarCRM has released into beta testing an upgrade of its platform that offers new wireless support and vastly enhanced reporting capabilities. SugarCRM 5.1, which is available for testing now, supports mobile phones including the Blackberry and iPhone as well as advanced reporting and analytics, data import capabilities, customization and tracking features. On a recent Catamaran sail with the SugarCRM crew on San Francisco Bay, SugarCRM CEO John Roberts (shown below, third from right, with drink in hand) hinted to this blogger that the upcoming release was a lot more substantial than the 5.1 version number indicated.    I think he was right on, considering the laundry list of new features in version 5.1 that adds value to the…